News Item: Amazon decides to locate its "HQ2" in New York City after all, without getting the $3 billion in "financial incentives" (i.e. bribes) that it had demanded. Who's happy now, besides NYC and New York state taxpayers? AOC, who fought Amazon:
Me waiting on the haters to apologize after we were proven right on Amazon and saved the public billions https://t.co/AC64pG0nZI pic.twitter.com/xzCepkX4AV— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) December 6, 2019
Plutocrats will always insist that the taxpayer help fund their ventures that profit them, whether it's major headquarters or stadiums. This shows that standing up to their demands can work to the benefit of taxpayers.
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